MACCLESFIELD MP Nicholas Winterton has called for action as a killer paedophile is to start a new life in Cheshire after 16 years behind bars.

David Little has been kicked out of Australia where he was jailed for murdering his girlfriend and abusing a girl from the age of eight.

On his return to the UK he was interviewed by Special Branch detectives at Heathrow, but a legal loophole means he can return to the north west without being placed on the sex offenders register.

Mr Winterton told the Sunday Pink newspaper he does not know where Little intends to live

He said: "Clearly this is a cause for concern and I would have thought police and social services should reach a decision at a very early date, as to whether this man should be placed on the sex offenders' register."

A Cheshire Police spokesman said they are monitoring the situation closely.

"We have been briefed by the relevant authorities and have spoken to the individual concerned," the spokesman said.

Little moved to Perth, Australia, in the seventies where he met and moved in with Susan Stubbs.

Little fatally shot Susan Stubbs three times in the head at close range. He was convicted of murder, four counts of sexually assaulting a child, and one of attempted rape.

He was jailed for life for murder and another four years over the sexual offences.